In the new world of next-generation networks, pretty much every leading network equipment manufacturer (NEM) today has application-awareness built into their products. Whether it’s an application firewall, serving gateway or edge router, they’re all using deep packet inspection (DPI) to look deep into the network traffic to identify the specific application.
For example, Cisco has Application Visibility & Control, Juniper has AppSecure, Palo Alto Networks has App-ID, Sandvine ha...

Today, Juniper announced Junosphere™ Lab, an innovative on-demand service that gives service providers and enterprises immediate and low cost access to a virtualized environment for designing and testing networks. Very cool stuff – leveraging the power of the cloud and helping customers dramatically reduce their TCO while accelerating the time to model networks.
Real Traffic in a Virtual Environment
So when you spin up a network environment and model a production topology, you&rs...

In our first edition of the Spirent (formerly Mu) App Quadrant, we compared the run-time aspects of the most popular desktop video applications – Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Amazon Video on Demand – and showed that Netflix is not particularly friendly to both Consumers and Operators.
It’s not just the apps – devices matter too!
Operators continue to struggle with the unpredictable growth of applications and the devices used to access them. With millions of people runni...